Linking Ancient and Contemporary
Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature
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abstract
Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature is a collection of essays which stems from a project of cooperation between the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University. The first conference was held in Venice on 21-22 March 2013, the second will be held in Peking University on 14-16 October 2016. The volume reflects the desire to compare and integrate different approaches to Chinese literature, showing how, in different epochs, traditional intellectual and literary values have been repeatedly criticized and rejected, yet have often resurfaced in many different ways and have been reinterpreted.
Didactic conception of literature • Honglou meng • Gu wei jin yong • Jiang Shiquan • Lyricism • Jestbook • End of Spring in Jiangnan • The Dream of the Red Chamber • Chinese poetry • Humorous anecdotes • Renmian taohua • Confucianism • Analects • Emily Dickinson • Xiyou ji • Chinese Political Discourse • The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons • Ernest Fenollosa • Historical consciousness of the lyrical • Pre-modern Chinese fiction • ‘di’ (‘de’) • Goethe • Ban Gu • Literary Self-Consciousness • Qing dynasty drama • Zhongshuo • Bai Shouyi • The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong • Wang Tong • ‘zhe’ • Tao Yuanming • Song Yuan • Modern Chinese literary theory • Structure auxiliary • Taste • Jiao Hong ji • Utopia • Metaphorical Language • The Water Margin • Yingying zhuan • Wei • World literature • Mountains and Rivers Fall Asleep • Classical Chinese theater • Poetic taste • Empathy • Chinese Contemporary Literature • Sima Qian • Wenzhongzi • Golden Tower Master • Gérard Genette • Feng Zhi • Shu • Grammar • Dystopia • Death • Belated Mellow Period • ‘Spirit of the times’ • Jinlouzi • Shuihu zhuan • Doctrines of the Middle Way • Chunjin jiangnan • Miscellaneous drama • Chinese Written Character • Jests • Phonetic • Outlaws on the Marsh • Shouhuo • Comparative literature • Consideration of others • Honma Hisao • Shanhe ru meng • Chinese modernity • Huabu • Peach Blossom-beauty • 12th CPC Congress • ‘Literariness’ • Chineseness • Post-Modernity • Wenxin diaolong • Golden Rule • Chuanqi • Lunyu • Liu Xie • Six Dynasties • Introduction to Literary Theory • The Story of Yingying • Neo-Confucianism • Yan Lianke • The Journey to the West • 18th CPC Congress • Popular literature